DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.26
Rank	#162	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

IBM

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2014

2015

2010

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

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